L.A. Psychedelic Events

Why the Music? Exploring Sound and Music in the Ayahuasca Experience

Exploring Sound and Music in the Ayahuasca Experience About this Event This event will be an exploration of sound and music and how they affect and guide the experience of ayahuasca. It will be part lecture and storytelling, and part experiential. Discussed will be icaros, traditional instruments, and non-traditional instruments that are making their way into … Read moreWhy the Music? Exploring Sound and Music in the Ayahuasca Experience

The Medicine Documentary Screening

The Medicine reveals the hidden mysteries of one of nature’s most powerful and controversial healing remedies: ayahuasca. It is a documentary about Amazonian shamanism, introducing Taita Juanito Guillermo Chindoy Chindoy, both a teacher and student of the sacred plant medicine. As ayahuasca gains popularity in the West, the film explores the science as well as … Read moreThe Medicine Documentary Screening

Psychedelics & Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors: DMT & 5-MeO-DMT

Monoamine Oxidase (MAO) is an important metabolic enzyme involved in the metabolism of several neurotransmitters and tryptamine psychedelics such as DMT and 5-MeO-DMT. While inhibition of this enzyme is critical to making DMT orally active as part of the mechanism of ayahuasca, it can be unsafe and even lethal to combine other drugs or psychedelics … Read morePsychedelics & Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors: DMT & 5-MeO-DMT

Ayahuasca Manifested: Tapping into Visionary State

Ayahuasca, also referred to as the “Visionary Vine” has much to teach us about how we —as the conscious observer — create our own reality. About this Event The Aware Project (www.awareproject.org) hosts a series of monthly Psychedelic Awareness Salon events in Los Angeles and San Diego. We are creating a connected and educated community … Read moreAyahuasca Manifested: Tapping into Visionary State

Becoming a Voice for the Plants

Adam Roa and Azrya Cohen have been in a deep communion with altered states of consciousness for the past seven years. Beginning with forays into psychedelics through the burning man community, both Adam and Azrya continually found deeper insight, purpose and clarity of vision through working with these substances in an intentional way. Five years … Read moreBecoming a Voice for the Plants